This paper analyzes a simple game-theoretic model of curriculum integration decision-making in a high school with academic and vocational tracks. The model is based on a formal theory of how curriculum integration affects learning. Teachers choose to include a curriculum integration unit in their classes only when it increases learning relative to…

A computer-Based management game was designed as both an orientation and a training device for new department heads and others who might profit from a better understanding of some of the significant decision elements in the administration of an academic department. Each game participant serves in the same capacity and is required to make two…

This report describes an amendment to a simulation program for the training of practicing and prospective educational administrators. The amendment was designed to operationalize and test game theory formats that provide students with feedback on decisions made in the gamed simulations. Game theory instruments used in the amendment are described…

The mathematical exercise of the the Prisoner's Dilemma is used to explore the issue of whether present models or paradigms of policy analysis cover the complete range of rational decision making. A review of the competing paradigms of the cybernetic concept, the analytic probability concept, and the cognitive categorization concept reveals…

A 1957 SIMULATION PROGRAM FOR THE TRAINING OF PRACTICING AND PROSPECTIVE EDUCATIONAL ADMINISTRATORS WAS UPDATED IN 1966 TO REFLECT EMERGING PROBLEMS AS WELL AS CHANGES IN SCHOOL ORGANIZATION, TEACHER SALARIES, AND OTHER ASPECTS OF ELEMENTARY SCHOOL ADMINISTRATION. THE REVISED PROGRAM INCLUDED--(1) SIMULATION ROLES FOR THE SUPERINTENDENT, FOR…

A demand for more and better education has driven educators to seek the help of systems analysis in the process of decision making. Basic to the entire systems notion is the concept of a model, a simplified but controllable version of the real world. The systems approach, once the problem is defined, is to specify the subfunctions and…

The intent of this document is to describe approximately 30 management science and organizational behavioral techniques with practical applications in school business management. Each technique is described by the mechanics of using the technique, specific applications of the technique, and requirements and constraints in the use of the technique.…